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Northwest Territories Fishery Regulations (C.R.C., c. 847)

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Regulations are current to 2013-05-26 and last amended on 2012-09-20. Previous Versions

SCHEDULE VI

(Sections 28 and 29)

SPORT FISHING DAILY CATCH AND POSSESSION LIMITS

Item	Column I	Column II	Column III	Column IV
Item	Species of Fish	Waters	Daily Catch Limit	Possession Limit
1.	Arctic char	(1) Hornaday River and its tributaries	(1) 1	(1) 1
		(2) All waters of the Coppermine River upstream from Bloody Falls at 67°43′N, 115°21′W	(2) 1	(2) 1
		(3) Greiner Lake and Freshwater Creek and their tributaries and the waters of Cambridge Bay, north and west of a line drawn from a point at 69°05′N, 105°04′W to a point at 69°06′10″N, 105°02′W	(3) 1	(3) 1
		(4) Meliadine River and its tributaries, Meliadine Lake and the waters of Prairie Bay within 8 km of the Meliadine River at 62°52′N and 92°06′W	(4) 2	(4) 4
		(5) Diana River and its tributaries, Diana Lake, Peter Lake and the waters of Rankin Inlet within 8 km of the mouth of the Diana River at 62°50′N, 29°24′W	(5) 2	(5) 4
		(6) Tree River at 67°40′40″N, 111°52′27″W (NAD 84)	(6) 1	(6) 2
		(7) Sylvia Grinnell Lake and Sylvia Grinnell River and their tributaries and the waters of Frobisher Bay within 8 km of the mouth of the Sylvia Grinnell River at 63°44′N, 68°34′W	(7) 1	(7) 1
		(8) All other waters of the Northwest Territories	(8) 4	(8) 7
2.	Arctic grayling	(1) Mackenzie River and its tributaries lying between the lines of longitude at 116°W and 118°W	(1) 1	(1) 1
		(2) All waters within the Gwich'in Settlement Area, Inuvialuit Settlement Region and Sahtu Settlement Area excluding the Great Bear Lake Special Management Area	(2) 5	(2) 10
		(3) All other waters of the Northwest Territories	(3) 3	(3) 5
3.	Brook trout	All waters of the Northwest Territories	3	5
4.	Bull trout	All waters of the Northwest Territories	2	3
5.	Burbot	All waters of the Northwest Territories	5	10
6.	Ciscoes	All waters of the Northwest Territories	350	350
7.	Dolly Varden	All waters of the Northwest Territories	4	7
8.	Goldeye	All waters of the Northwest Territories	5	10
9.	Inconnu	(1) Great Slave Lake and its tributaries	(1) 1	(1) 2
9.	Inconnu	(2) All other waters of the Northwest Territories	(2) 5	(2) 10
10.	Lake trout	(1) Great Bear Lake, including all of the Camsell River upstream to White Eagle Falls and all other tributaries to Great Bear Lake from their mouths to 1 km upstream	(1) 1	(1) 2
		(2) Great Slave Lake, including all tributaries from their mouths to 1 km upstream	(2) 2	(2) 3
		(3) All other waters of the Northwest Territories	(3) 3	(3) 5
11.	Northern pike	(1) Great Bear Lake, including all of the Camsell River upstream to White Eagle Falls and all other tributaries to Great Bear Lake from their mouths to 1 km upstream	(1) 3	(1) 5
		(2) Mackenzie River including tributaries lying between the lines of longitude at 116°W and 118°W	(2) 1	(2) 2
		(3) All other waters of the Northwest Territories	(3) 5	(3) 10
12.	Rainbow trout	All waters of the Northwest Territories	3	5
13.	Suckers (all species)	All waters of the Northwest Territories	no limit	no limit
14.	Walleye	(1) Mosquito Creek and waters of Great Slave Lake within 1 km of the mouth of Mosquito Creek (62°42′N, 116°04′W)	(1) 3	(1) 5
14.	Walleye	(2) All other waters of the Northwest Territories	(2) 5	(2) 10
15.	Lake, Broad and Round Whitefish	All other waters of the Northwest Territories	10	20

SOR/78-369, s. 4;
SOR/79-485, s. 13;
SOR/81-119, s. 12;
SOR/85-713, s. 1;
SOR/88-256, ss. 1, 2;
SOR/91-428, s. 6;
SOR/91-481, s. 7;
SOR/2004-38, s. 6;
SOR/2005-108, s. 6.